But I wanted to thank everyone who has supported CHRONAL ENGINE since the idea began to gel and it became a book. The list is too long to be comprehensive, but a few of the worthies are my wife, Cyn (of course), early reader Anne Bustard, my agent Ginger Knowlton, my editor Daniel Nayeri, the production and marketing and sales staffs at Clarion/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, booksellers and librarians too numerous to mention, and of course READERS!

So, to celebrate CHRONAL ENGINE and the holiday season, starting tomorrow, for the next twelve days, I am featuring on this blog A DINO A DAY: each day, a picture of me wearing a different dinosaur T-shirt at a different, iconic Austin locale.

To start off with Day 0, here are some pics from the Turkey Trot:

Before the race

Awesome avian dinosaur costume

Running up Lavaca

15th Street toward Lamar

At the finish

Enjoy! And thanks also to all the Turkey Trot organizers and sponsors and volunteers!